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This document summarizes key concepts around media literacy, copyright, and fair use. It discusses expanding literacy to include mass media, pop culture, and digital technology. It also covers evaluating and communicating across different forms of media. The document explains the confusion around what content can legally be used and shared. It proposes addressing this confusion by establishing a code of best practices for fair use in media literacy education. It outlines different approaches teachers may take around issues of copyright and provides an overview of fair use and creative commons principles.
Fair use
- 1. Media Literacy Communication Critical Thinking Skills Expand literacy to Ability to access, mass media, pop evaluate, culture, digital communicate in a technology variety of forms
- 2. Confusion Copyright protects thecreativity, and sharing of Original Work Can I use it?!!??
- 3. Teachers Reactions End the Confusion through Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education See no Evil Hear no Evil Speak no Evil • Pretend that • Use it but hope • Hyper Comply there is nothing no one • Better safe wrong going on complains than sorry • Don’t address • Don’t use it copyright or fair use.
- 4. Fair Use • Usingsomeone else’s media, information, product • Depends on the use of the product, how it is used, how much is used, economic impact on the original creator. – Have to keep the original value – Don’t take too much
- 5. Activity Draw a picture Pass it to a partner Can your partner copy or change your picture? Yes No if you are using it for education, research, adding content If you are avoiding doing your own work or ideas. Fair Use
- 6. Fair Use Principles •Use copyrighted material for media literacy • Use copyrighted material to create lessons • Use copyrighted material to share media • Students can incorporate, modify and use existing media in their own work but not substitute for their own creative effort. • Student work can be distributed with proper attribution to original works used.
- 7. Creative Commons People upload theircontent and sets rights for the information to be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, added to. What if you want others to use your ideas, creations, music, photos? Creative Commons Refine rights reserved • You get to choose what others are allowed to use.
- 8. Copyright = Protecting creativity, Copyright sharing, copying Fair Use Creative Common Fair Use = Right to use Creative Common = copyrighted material Enables the author to set boundaries for using, learn, inspiring new ideas.
- 9. Sources • Creative CommonsVideo - http://youtu.be/uTjpghGjjfo • FBI warning - http://www.flickr.com/photos/24086471@N04/3169779483/sizes/m/in/p hotostream/ • See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil - http://www.flickr.com/photos/47262623@N08/6036037443/